HATAITAI

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 139, 9 December 1918, Page 10

HATAITAI

A meeting of the Hataitai committee ■was held on Saturday evening. The [ expenditure incurred during the cainipaign amounted to £41, and after payI ing this a balance of £50 remained. Of f this, £26 was earmarked for the Tolley fund, and £24 for the relief of families in distress. Messrs. A. G. Barnett, A. Leigh Hunt, and H. W. Tolan were appointed trustees. Patients who had been attended by Sistsr Jessie are forwarding to her a travelling valise for use in her •work among the Maoris. A pleasing feature of the statement was "motor-car —cost, nil." The executive were of opinion that any attempt to reward tho epidemic fighters by special votes of thanks or badges, as has been suggested, would bo contrary to the workers' wishes. A number of letters of appreciation from patients were read to the meeting. The Chairman said the statistics of the •pidtmio in Httiitai b*4 b«n awfully

compiled, and would be available for the authontes when required. He congratulated the committee upon its thorough work throughout. The depot was open less than three weeks. The visitation had been short and terrible, but willing and devoted workers had put forth every effort to assist those Btricken, and to fight down the epidemic, rhe inspection of interiors of houses was a subject upon which there wouJd bo .differences of opinion, but it was imperative that something should be done in this direction.